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 Diplomacy bro. No one wants to get their heads chopped off 
 Exactly until Billionaires don’t rely on the state for some measure of protection, securing resources, whatever is provided, it all shall exist. People will keep doing stuff to get the things they want and at some point they don’t care at all about hidden costs. Check your desperation and motivation but how do you really know until you are tested? 
 That’s very possible and something I considered but we can’t ever know what is in his mind so his intentions don’t matter to me. His actions do. If he did block Bitcoin development, then fuck him. It’s like Michael Bitstein said, “everyone is a scammer.” Saylor is stacking his bag with tools that people like us don’t have access to. No one can get loans at the interest rates he can. People like us need the open source development of things like mutiny, sparrow, nostr, mempool.space, whirlpool.